Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 02, 1941
Died
Dec 28, 2012
Place of Birth
Caterham, Surrey, England
Credits
60 titles
Jon Finch
Biography
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
Known For
Filmography
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Self (archive footage)
Kingdom of Heaven
Patriarch of Jerusalem
Tomb of Terror
Bennett
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Self
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Derek Jarvis
Darklands
David Keller
White Men Are Cracking Up
Detective Margrave
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
Lurking Fear
Bennett
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
Beautiful Lies
George Orwell
Love at First Sight
George
Maigret
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Vortigern
La più bella del reame
Jeremy
Streets of Yesterday
The Voice
Miller
Unexplained Laughter
Finn
South of the Border
Trevor
The Play on One
Finn
Make and Break
Peter Davis
Casualty
Graham Lester
Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro
The Bill
Pop Pirates
Coastguard
Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
The Odd Job Man
George Griffin
Power Game
Giro City
O'Mally
Doctor Faustus
Adrian Leverkühn
Peter and Paul
Luke
Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
Breaking Glass
Woods
Hammer House of Horror
David
The Martian Chronicles
Christ
Henry IV Part 2
King Henry IV
Henry IV Part 1
King Henry IV
La Sabina
Michael
Richard II
Henry Bolingbroke
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Henry Bolingbroke
Death on the Nile
James Ferguson
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Self / James Ferguson
The Standard
Charbinsky
Curro Jiménez
McCallaghan
The New Avengers
Wallace
Game of Seduction
Count Charles de Lapalmmes
El segundo poder
Juan de Sacramonte
Diagnosis: Murder
Lomax
The Final Programme
Jerry Cornelius
The Big Screen
Self